The CLog

The corruption case against Patrick Cannon didn't end with his arrest. The U.S. Attorney's Office has subpoenaed Mecklenburg County officials, seeking records relating to Cannon. The mandate comes a month after investigators requested such documents from the city. Clearly no one is safe.

Some people aren't satisfied with simply visiting a museum. Dexter Anderson broke a window at the National Civil Rights Museum, in Memphis, and was found asleep in the Lorraine Hotel's room 308, which is just a few doors down from the room Martin Luther King Jr. stayed in the day he was assassinated. Anderson was charged with vandalism. Security has since increased at the museum.

South Sudanese rebels slaughtered hundreds seeking refuge in mosques in the area. The body count is so high, UN officials couldn't give an exact body count, just describing "piles and piles" of bodies. "'A strong stench of decomposing remains filled the air, while vultures and dogs ate off limbs, scalps and abdomen flesh,' said one report."